PainInTheASP:They're not just supposed to shoot the bastards, they're supposed to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on their tanks. They're supposed to murder those lousy Afghan bastards by the bushel.

We need a general who walks into the psychiatrist's office and says "Shrink, I want to kill. I mean, I wanna, I wanna kill. Kill. I wanna, I wanna see, I wanna see blood and gore and guts and veins in my teeth. Eat dead burnt bodies. I mean kill, Kill, KILL, KILL."

They're not just supposed to shoot the bastards, they're supposed to cut out their living guts and use them to grease the treads on their tanks. They're supposed to murder those lousy Afghan bastards by the bushel.

No bullshiat--grab the enemy, kill them. Detested pomp and strutting about. The perfect foil for Robert E. Lee, Grant would have been a brilliant commander in any era.

My grandfather was there when Lee surrendered to Grant. Here is his words directly from his diary..."Uncle Billy was too busy down south burning his way toward us to take the sword from Lee so Dear Father rode in on his horse,looking tired, Unshaven,boots tinged with mud and blood he took Lee's sword then returned it. He told us men not to brag in our glory but to share in the pain of our fellow Americans ,who we were once again brothers too. We later ate the best popcorn and coffee we had ever had. It was then that I found the most incredible mushrooms. Johnny Reb taught me how to smoke it. It is to this that I owe my longevity. It was then too that I first raped my Captains ripe ass,all the way back to New York City. Good Times"

His grandfather was Kind of A Big Deal during WWII, and I believe he himself graduated West Point.

By the time you get to "IV" the chances that you are a self-absorbed douchebag are pretty high. Then this guy goes on to prove it by touting his own grandfather by proudly offering the opinion that he performed at the level of psychotic murderer during WWII. Then at the very end we have a link to his blog where he has to share the glory of his body with us (NSFWish):

jshine:unlikely: Again, I really want to know why it matters who he puts his penis in.

Its a bad idea for people with access to lots of classified information to have serious financial problems (makes them susceptible to bribery) or sexual/personal secrets -- e.g., affairs, or being deeply in-the-closet, etc. (makes them susceptible to blackmail). Ideally, people in those roles should have boring, drama-free lives.

That is correct. If you hold a clearance, especially higher level clearances, and your credit starts to go in the shiatter as an example; the feds will contact you. However, if you report what happened beforehand, they are pretty understanding. Petraeus is a man. He made a bad call and slept with someone other than his wife (who might I add was also cleared and in the service). Again, he wasn't trading sexual favors for secrets.I am responding to the fact that this author in TFA is a self-righteous dickweed that thinks because his granpappy was a general, that he is somehow qualified to discuss "what makes a general great."

Also...there is the Bhengazi thing...where the General's vagina said that the CIA was keeping prisoners...which it isn't supposed to be doing. And that the attack on the consulate was related to prisoners. So, yeah, his pillow talk is now a state security risk.